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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide 
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Robert Delaunay
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Ambrose Bierce
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Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Arthur Erickson
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